Vancouver Hospital Refuses MAID Patients

 

St Paul's Hospital was founded in 1894. It was built by the catholic church  in Vancouver to serve everyone in the community. It also provided training for women to become nurses when there was no school or many nurses in the area. It was the first hospital in the area to have an xray machine and it created a service where women could leave their baby if they felt they could not care for the child back when social services were not present.

I make these points just to give you a sense of what the hospital has been to the community. Recently, the hospital has made the news again when a patient was refused MAID services despite their right to do so. MAID is Medical Assistance In Dying. The hospital still being fundamentally catholic refuses to adhere to such. The province is now having to build a facility nearby to take in patients for such which has some of the families angry that they couldn't see their loved ones die as they wanted but rather suffer further through whatever medical issue they were going through.

Does the hospital have a right to refuse the MAID practice?

Does a patient have to right to MAID despite what hospital they are in? Do you get a choice where to go when this is your local hospital???????